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Exit Safe Mode by restart your Mac as normal and test again.

Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).

Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down.

If your MBP passes all hardware tests, then I'd try using it in Safe Mode.įollow these steps to boot your MBP into Safe Mode: This will try and run diagnostics from the internet instead, so you will need to allow more time for it to complete. Note 2: If pressing and holding the D key at Step 3 doesn't work, start again at Step 1 and, at Step 3 press and hold both the Option D keys instead. Take a note of the results and report back. Note 1: that the extended test will take some time.

Your test results will appear in the window in the bottom-right of the console.

However, I suggest you select the "Perform extended testing" checkbox before you click the Test button. When the AHT console appears, you can choose to run Basic tests by clicking the Test button.When prompted, select your language and click the right arrow.After a while, Apple Hardware Test (AHT) will start.Press and hold the D key before the gray startup screen appears.If it does, I'd test your hardware as with Apple Hardware Test. Turn your computer back on with the power buttonĪfter resetting both the NVRAM and SMC, use your computer to determine if the issue still persists.Reconnect the MagSafe cord (or power cable).Press the power button for 5 seconds and release.Disconnect the MagSafe plug (power cable) from the computer.To reset the SMC on your model MBP, follow these steps: speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, time zone information, etc). Note: When you log back in you may need to readjust some of your system preferences (e.g. Let go of the keys and let your MBP reboot normally.Hold those keys down until your MBP reboots again and you here the startup chime a second time.You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work. Press the power button and then press the command option p r keys.

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Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out. Before following the steps below, ensure you have no external hardware connected and that you're using the built-in keyboard. To start with I'd do a NVRAM and SMC reset (in that order) as there's really no harm in trying that first.

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There's quite a few things you could do to try and narrow things down, because even from the info you've provided the cause could be RAM, your battery, or something else altogether.įor example, if it works fine in Safe Mode then it's more likely to be some sort of software issue/conflict. Troubleshooting is often a process of elimination, so patience is often required.

So what does that indicate? would that be ram problem or a battery problem? Reboot might be too strong a word, i think it just turns off. Sometimes coming out of it will restore state, sometimes it will do a fresh bootup.Īnd of course it can reboot at any time during normal operation. Ok not sure about actual sleep but when you choose sleep and go to hibernating – i.e. The reboot problem will occur even when in sleep mode. Which brings me my "smoking gun" question… I believe this will pinpoint the problem once someone knowledgeable about macs and hardware reads this. Because it is basically guaranteed to fail in a week but a couple of days of uptime in inconclusive. That said swapping out the ram and testing each stick would mean I would need to run a week on each stick. They even say so on the internet, they can prove defective ram if they spot it, but if not – maybe it's defective, maybe not.

RAM problems, unfortunately I never had any success before on any other computer with ram testers so i don't think running one is going to help here.

contacts for the battery shorting out occasionally.

So I'm here to find out what likely is the real cause… My theory is that the problem is down to one of 3 things but these are just theories I'm not mac expert. I had a lemon of a battery before that swelled like crazy and bent the flimsy alumimum cover. My mbp reboots no more than twice a day, usually averaging once a day or day and half.

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This is above the original specs but due to a firmware upgrade some years ago, it now works with 4GB of RAM I have a macbok pro late 2008, running the latest OS apple will allow – el capitan.